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feature request: execute template tabs sequentially, rather than in parallel

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#1,061 opened on Feb 14, 2022

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Description

I have a multi-step workflow that I want to monitor with zellij. If I could tell zellij to execute my tabs in order, rather than in parallel, I can do some interesting things, like effectively run my CI pipeline as a zellij workflow, where can I watch the steps, see the fanout as multiple panels, and so on.

Particularly, I'd like to combine this with "keep-open" or "hold" functionality so that I could go back and review the finished output from earlier steps.

I could probably coordinate this myself with sentinel files or a named pipe or something like that, but it'd be nice to have it in zellij, possibly. Alternatively, I'd understand if this were considered out of scope.

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Research direction
Investigate the current tab execution logic in zellij's template system and propose a sequential execution mode that allows tabs to run one after another, possibly with a 'hold' option to review output.
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rust
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cli
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2
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